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Storm then moved to Yemen in 2001 and grew close to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al-Awlaki.

As he became trusted by fundamentalists, he met shoe bomber Richard Reid and, at one point, was offered the chance to meet Osama Bin Laden.

Spy game: The 38-year-old biker from Denmark converted to Islam after moving to Britain where he became raised and later moved to Yemen before becoming a double agent in 2006

Under cover: While in Yemen and Somalia, Storm worked for CIA, MI5, MI6 and the Danish intelligence service

Game on: The film about Morten Storm is set to be directed by Brit Paul Greengrass, who is the man behind the Bourne-trilogy and Captain Phillips

In his book he reveals he turned his back on fundamentalists after he was prevented from travelling to fight in Somalia in 2006.

He was stunned that he had been denied what he considered his fate and looked up 'contradictions in the Koran' on the internet in frustration.

In an interview with BBC's Newsnight, broadcast last night, he said: 'Once I had researched the contradictions, I finally realised how misguided I was and what a danger my associates were for the free world.'

He was later recruited by the CIA, MI5 and the Danish intelligence service, PET, as a double agent to inform on operations in Yemen and Somalia and prevent attacks in Europe.

Storm's life is rumoured to be brought to the big screen by Paul Greengrass, director of the Bourne Identity spy-trilogy, The Guardian reports.

Sony Pictures are said to have bought the rights to turn the book into a film after Greengrass took it to American producer Scott Rudin, who worked with him on the Oscar-nominated Captain Phillips.